Supporting Informed Choices in Childbirth (4-Day Course)
CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION FOR MATERNAL-INFANT HEALTH WORKERS
You get 23 hours of streaming content to watch at your own pace. Also included are a 280-page companion slide set and handouts in PDF format. We are available at anytime to answer questions via text, call, email, or zoom.
This is a basic course in childbirth education for health and human service professionals and doulas working with pregnant women. You will gain information to promote evidence-based, trauma-informed, childbirth education classes for pregnant women and their partners in the community or clinical setting.
This course will help your staff and organization achieve program objectives for maternal-infant health including lowering rates of prematurity, infant mortality, maternal mortality and cesarean section among program clients.
Upon completing the certification requirements, you will receive a “Certified Childbirth Educator” certificate.
Instructor: Cordelia Hanna, MPH, CHES, ICCE, CLE, CBA
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
By SESSION THREE of the course, participants will:
1. Select a childbirth or pregnancy related topic that interests you.
2. Review a peer reviewed journal article on subject of your choice. Must be within past 3 years.
3. Prepare a lesson plan (10 mins) on the topic. Include the learner objectives, and use any materials you like such as powerpoint, videos, models, charts, or handouts you prepare.
Within ONE YEAR after the course, participants will:
- Prepare one book report and one summary of a peer-reviewed journal article from the past 3 years on pregnancy or childbirth-related topic, demonstrating the ability to research and synthesize and prepare health education materials in plain language for consumers.
- Develop a Childbirth Education curriculum/lesson plan using the curriculum design template provided in class.
- Observe a Childbirth Preparation Class (online or in community).
- Teach Childbirth Education classes in a community setting (online or in-person).
- Obtain a minimum of three instructor evaluations from three participants in the childbirth education class you conducted.
- Complete the Required Reading List (provided in the course)
Note: if the requirements are not met within the one year time frame, then the candidate will need to retake the childbirth educator course again.
RECERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (Certification is good for 2 years):
1. Read a peer-reviewed journal article written within the past 3 years, or read a childbirth-related book or watch a childbirth film on any topic related to pregnancy or childbirth; or
2. Attend a webinar, workshop, conference on a childbirth-related topic. Then:
3. Write a 2-3 page paper or create a lesson plan (using the template provided in the course) on what you learned from this article, conference, webinar, book or film, why it is an important topic in the field of childbirth education and how you plan to integrate or implement this new knowledge into your childbirth education classes. Papers should use APA formatting and be presented in 11 or 12 point font, spaced 1.5, and include all references in APA Format.
4. Recertification Fee is $100 and is good for 2 years
